[PATCH] powerpc: Remove modpost warning with start_secondary

[Kumar Gala]

On Dec 2, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x2aa): Section mismatch in reference from  
>> the variable __secondary_start to the  
>> function .devinit.text:start_secondary()
>> The function __secondary_start() references
>> the function __devinit start_secondary().
>>
>> start_secondary gets called by __secondary_start which is in asm  
>> code so its
>> not marked as __devinit.  Its easier to just remove the __devinit  
>> from
>> start_secondary than try and deal with __secondary_start.
>
> Which just gets another mismatch warning here:
>
> WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x23cc4): Section  
> mismatch in reference from the function .start_secondary() to the  
> function .devinit.text:.smp_store_cpu_info()
> The function .start_secondary() references
> the function __devinit .smp_store_cpu_info().
> This is often because .start_secondary lacks a __devinit
> annotation or the annotation of .smp_store_cpu_info is wrong.
>
> Isn't there a better way to address this?  It doesn't seem right to
> increase the kernel's memory usage to get rid of a modpost warning.

Fair.. what defconfig did you build?

- k